thedeadparrot

-I am addicted to Echo Bazaar, and it is sad, because I have no twitter friends who are playing, which clearly means that I have no friends. *sadface* It's kind of hard to describe as a game, but I would suggest giving it a shot. And then friending me on twitter. The Border House blog has written a review, and I am impressed by how open the world is.


- Not touching the Fiction Alley thing with a ten foot pole.


- Feeling kind of blah about writing. Work is stressful. I have a draft that I need to tear apart and put back together again. Sherlock fandom is doing its level best to make me not want to be anywhere near it. Etc.


- Elections are always a clusterfuck, but at least I got to vote in my uncontested congressional district.


- I am not going to sign up for any holiday gift exchanges besides yuletide. This is a promise that I must make to myself so that I will end up writing a bazillion yuletide treats in tiny fandoms that I love.


- Burritos are delicious.

Okay, so I'm feeling a little crazy from school and TAing and not being able to write anything, and maybe I need to get out of summer mode, where I didn't see anyone ever and I had shitloads of free time.

I'm feeling a little more zen this morning, though. The weather is one I actually really like, cloudy and drizzly, and having a mostly-empty computer lab to yourself is calming.

Okay, that's enough emo for this morning.

I also want to say that I am in my early-semester computer science love-fest, because computers are SO COOL, and so is everything that goes into making them AWESOME, even the math theory.The shiny-happy feeling will probably fade as the semester drags on, but for right now, I'm all, finite state machines! interpreters! Turing completeness! schedulers! parsing!

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And if you're asking, why penguins? It's because penguins are fucking awesome.

In other news, this week is going to suck if I don't get my act together and at least get sockets started. Clearly my brain wants me to flunk out of school. Or just CS036.

Still need to get concentration paperwork done. And talk to my adviser so that I can get my concentration paperwork done.

I have a summer job, though. So that's awesome.

So, I'm kind of torn about Across the Universe. It could be really shitty and make me want to cry, or it could be really awesome and make me want to cry. It could go either way. I mean, it's the Beatles, and yeah, it's The Beatles, and its hard to imagine it being cohesive instead of just crap, so I'm nervous. But if it is cohesive and not crap, then it could be glorious. Like I said, torn.

Amazon books finally came. They're for this dystopian literature class that I'm taking this semester, so I actually have to read one of them and write up discussion questions about it tonight. In the process of doing this, I also managed to accidentally buy the movie version of Logan's Run and not the actual book. I realize that this makes me a complete and utter moron.

It amuses me that Neil Gaiman wrote an essay for Sim City 2000, because it only confirms that he's a complete and utter writing whore, and is really not ashamed of this at all. You can find it here, and I completely love it, because I love cities and he manages to capture some of the reasons why.

I am also interviewing for an internship at Adobe tomorrow. I have a vague idea of what to expect. Mostly me getting a nice rejection letter.

remixredux is starting up. I need to figure out what fandoms I'm going to offer to write in before I sign up, but I am quite excited about it. This and yuletide are my two big ficathons for the year. I barely squeak by with adding Harry Potter as one of the fandoms that I have written. Same with House, oddly enough, because out of the nine House stories I've written, four of them are crossovers.

Have also been messing around with Tomboy. Seems pretty neat, especially because I'm really unorganized. Perhaps this will help.

1. Conclusions are the hardest part of papers. I can never get them right. They suck a lot. Kind of like your mom.

2. House is a really big asshole. An asshole with something resembling a moral compass, but that doesn't really make him not an asshole. Even then, I still think he's incredibly interesting as a character, though that just might be the fact that Hugh Laurie is charismatic as all get out.

3. Myths are really cool. I'm incredibly drawn to myths and the themes that keep repeating through them. That's probably why I love superheroes and Carnivale and religion in BSG and Neil Gaiman. Myths are just really fucking cool.

4. People shouldn't be afraid to call themselves feminists. Feminism is not a dirty word, and the more people think the fight is over, the more we all lose.

5. Clive Owen is hot. Just sayin'.

6. Computer Science is the most awesome thing ever. Seriously. Programming is just ridiculously cool. If I weren't completely lazy, I'd probably do it in my spare time, too. Also, computers are just plain cool.

7. Marilyn Monroe is overhyped. I watched Some Like It Hot last night, and while it was good and funny and she was hardly bad in it, but still, overhyped.

8. Linux is the shizznit. I just love it so much, I kind of scare myself a bit. I can't really stand using Windows anymore.

9. Ship wars are not seriuz bizness. I, personally, am not all that invested in ships, and I don't really care when other people are, up until the point it becomes incredibly negative toward other fans, just because they happen to like a different ship. At that point, I usually slap the "crazy" label on. (Harmonians, I'm looking at you.)

10. I should probably eat something. I'm pretty hungry.

11. That I totally would have finished that Five Things meme from like three months ago, except for the fact that everything I wrote sucked, and I couldn't make it not suck. Sorry.

This is one of the coolest, trippiest videos ever. And it has awesome music.

So, yeah, I'm running XGL with Beryl right now, and it's quite awesome. It means that I can run a movie or something in fullscreen mode, and then lower the transparency of say, gVim in front of it, so that I can code in MIPS Assembly and watch, say BSG, at the exact same time.

Also, in reinstalling Ubuntu, I fubared my Windows boot partition or something. Of course, the fact that it took me like two weeks to find this out probably shows how much I use Windows these days.

Sometimes it makes me sad to think that all the humanities majors I know aren't learning about ray tracers or pipelining, because THEY ARE AWESOME. But then I remember that they're humanities majors for a reason.

Also liked this week's BSG muchly. I shall elaborate later. (Still needs more Zarek, though.)

It took me like two hours to sign up for yuletide today. It was kind of pathetic. And nervewracking. And pathetic.

One of my professors today dressed up as a Grim Reaper and stayed in character for the entire lecture as he was teaching us about garbage collection. It was pretty awesome. He has an accent, which just added to the awesome. "Zis pointer is red, like blood! And zis pointer is blue, alzo like blood!"

I should probably get my work done ahead of time, instead of waiting until the last minute to see if I can squeak by. That would probably be a good idea. Maybe.

Still alive. Barely. I really like Intro to Graphics, but it's also pretty intense so I haven't really been around.

Still working on the Five things. I swear.

Sandman is so freaking good. I just got Endless Nights, and I would totally lick it if that weren't gross.

I also got the third season of Arrested Development. Yay Bluths. I wonder if Michael's name is a very, very vague, subtle reference to The Godfather. That would amuse me greatly.

I'm also taking a Pop Culture class this semester. I'll keep you posted if there's actually anything interesting that happens.

Milk + cereal = awesome, though Milk in cereal = gross. I like my cereal crunchy.

Okay, yeah, I've been off playing video games. I don't really like Splinter Cell that much, mostly because I suck at being stealthy. Also, because the storyline doesn't really interest me that much.

I go back to school in about a week. How scary is that?

Still need to see Snakes on a Plane. Yes, I do know that I fail at life.

Totally watched The New World with complex_numbers, and while I liked it a lot, we totally spent the entire movie making fun of it. Because that was amusing.

Also, Christian Bale with a beard is hot.

P.S. mjules? I will totally send you that stuff at some point. After, you know, I actually find it. Sorry about the wait.

I finally got Quicktime trailers working in Linux! Even the Hi-Def versions! w00t. One less thing I'll feel obligated to boot into Windows for. This is very exciting for me.

Carnivale season 2 is out on DVD. I'm all excited and stuff. This makes me ridiculously happy like you wouldn't believe. I haven't watched it yet, but that's mostly due to lack of time.

There seems to be an influx of 'omg slash!' of late (at least on f_w). To which I roll my eyes, shake my head, and mutter, "newbies".